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+.\"                                      Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*-
+.\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps
+.\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
+.\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
+.TH bbackupd 8 "Oct  9, 2005"
+.\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage.
+.\"
+.\" Some roff macros, for reference:
+.\" .nh        disable hyphenation
+.\" .hy        enable hyphenation
+.\" .ad l      left justify
+.\" .ad b      justify to both left and right margins
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+.\" .sp <n>    insert n+1 empty lines
+.\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7)
+.SH NAME
+bbackupd \- client daemon of the Box Backup system
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B bbackupd
+.RI "config_file [SINGLEPROCESS]"
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+This manual page documents briefly the
+.B bbackupd
+command.
+This manual page was written for the Debian distribution
+because the original program does not have a manual page.
+.PP
+.\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB<whatever>\fP and
+.\" \fI<whatever>\fP escape sequences to invode bold face and italics, 
+.\" respectively.
+\fbbbackupd\fP is the client daemon of the Box Backup system. It runs in
+the background, periodically scanning the file system looking for modified
+files. It then uploads them to the remote store according to parameters
+defined in its config file.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.B config_file
+Path to the configuration file for bbackupd.
+.TP
+.B SINGLEPROCESS
+For test purpose only. Prevent the daemon to fork in the background and to detach from the terminal.
+.SH FILES
+.TP
+.I /etc/boxbackup/bbackupd.conf
+Default configuration file for bbackupd.
+.TP
+.I /var/lib/bbackupd
+Location of management files of the daemon.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR bbackupctl (8),
+.BR bbackupquery (8),
+.BR bbackupd-config (8).
+.br
+.SH AUTHOR
+This manual page was written by J\['e]r\[^o]me Schell <jerome@myreseau.org>
+(with the help of the online documentation located at
+http://www.fluffy.co.uk/boxbackup/)
+for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).